This neighborhood bakery in Palermo is a gem! When my husband and I lived in Buenos Aires I would…read morestop by this bakery to pick up medialunas (croissants) and pastries. Their cookies, pastries, and cakes are delicious too. When my friends visitors from the states, I would also take them to this bakery and we'd eat the goodies at the Palermo parks. The bakery is clean and the staff is super friendly. Highly recommend if you are looking for Desayuno pastries, or dessert for your home cooked meals.

Cute little neighborhood café, offering up a tasty range of the usual suspects in the local pastry…read moreworld. Staff, a little stand-off-ish, but efficient, at least. A café americano and a postre balcarce. Three layers of vanilla sponge cake, rather firm, the bottom two sandwiching a thin layer of dulce de leche, then the next layer up, a very thin coat of what I'd guess is sweet chestnut paste, no meringues, a thin coating of whipped cream around the outside, and then a heavy dusting of sweetened grated coconut. Not exactly traditional. Okay, no better than that, and only a nod at faithfulness to the original. Okay coffee. 100 pesos combined. Meh. What can I say, they can't all be winners.

This place is the quintessential Argentinian bakery. The bakery opens early at 5AM and sometimes…read moreyou may have to arrive kind of early to beat the morning rush or to get the churros which sell out daily. I am serious I came here 3-4 days in a row and I could never get my hands on those darn churros. They must be filled with crack, because they sell out quick! The bakery offers cakes, tarts, pies, and cookies, but the real deal in my opinion are the pastries. You can just grab a basket and some tongs and they have a whole wall with an assortment of fattening yummies to choose from. I loved the ones filled with Dulce de leche or with cream. But you can also grab regular croissants or pastries filled with fruit jam. They are only 6 pesos, so at the moment that means 3 pastries are about 1 US dollar. That is a deal anywhere in the world! You can order breakfast sandwiches as well, but I was always in it for the pastries. Paying the cashier was a little strange and the servers didn't seem all that friendly, but I can overlook it considering how busy they always seem to be. Stop by and eat some pastries and remember to look out for those churros!

The very best bakery around. Great cakes, bread, pastries and sandwiches. Prices are just right,…read morebut be ready to queue for some time

Lumio is another of a breed of pleasant, unbearably adorable read-your-newspaper spots in San Telmo…read morewhere you can get your breakfast, lunch, or cafe time in. They even sell handmade ceramics and teas, and have a little table with a pretty bakery display. Find this bright corner cafe just across the street from the San Telmo flea market building. We stopped in for our merienda (the light evening meal before a typically late dinner). Sets for merienda are available until 7pm (same sets for desayuno until around noon). The tostadas were thick slices of fresh bread, a perfect snack when accompanied by queso blanco and dulce de leche. The #3 salad was giant (as expected) and was one the tastier salads I've had. They were the first place we went in Argentina that actually charged us the table fee (cubierto) - 9 pesos. Menu prices are average-to-high: the "sencillo" merienda set was 37 pesos, salad was 42 pesos, and yerba mate from a teabag was annoyingly 17 pesos. Worth a visit? It's no destination, but it's a cute place to indulge in the local cafe-going thing if you're in San Telmo.

Excellent, healthy choices. Great if you're in a hurry. Great if you're not. There is hot and cold…read morefood, both ready and waiting, along with a variety of drinks. I had the Italian salad and potato wedges.